Hi,
On Saturday 04 June 2011 21:06:01 Harald Welte wrote:
- two antennas, circular, 18 meters above ground
Are you sure that this is possible? (because of the airfield) The Chaoswelle Camp2007 page[0] states that 12m was the maximum antenna/mast height, but that might also be a myth (some chaoswelle guys I asked couldn't remember).
one more thing: We (the ham radio guys from metalab/Vienna in cooperation with Chaoswelle) are planning to do some 2m (144MHz) EME[1] communications.
The path of the moon will be south with pretty low elevation, so our communications path will be almost directly above your heads ;-)
More about the setup on the camp wiki[2], but expect abt. 30dBW PA output. Professional equipment should have no problems with that, however wideband hardware like the WBX, Funcube Dongle etc. might not like it.
- from August 2nd through August 15th, i.e. we have time for build-up and can also run it one more day during shutdown of the camp
We will be there 3-4 Days prior the opening event, if you need some hands for build-up (mechanical/HF/whatever) we'll be glad to help.
regards, Clemens Hopfer, OE1RFC
[0] http://www.chaoswelle.de/Camp2007 (german, look at "Regeln") [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EME_%28communications%29 [2] https://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/wiki/Moonbounce